Digital school book
Digital textbooks are works in digitized (or electronic) form and approved for use in school lessons, usually officially through the approval procedure of the responsible ministry.
The preparation of the content is characterized by the fact that various interactive functions and multimedia content, such as video clips , animations , feedback functions and virtual reality , can be offered in different combinations. Digital school books are specially designed to meet the personal characteristics and needs of the learner. As an alternative to textbooks, however, they are also controversial when weighed up the effort and benefit.
Examples from Germany
German educational media manufacturers have been offering digital textbook versions since the 2012/13 school year, parallel to an already existing digital product range. The books of all participating publishers can be accessed via the “digital school books” platform. They are available offline and online in a uniform format. As app , the digital textbooks are available for both the iPad and for Android - Tablets available.
As part of the Schulbuch-O-Mat model experiment, schoolbooks should be created collaboratively and freely accessible, based on current curricula. The financing of this project was organized through the crowdfunding community startnext.org. This resulted in a biology book for the 7th and 8th grade that has been available for download since 2013. It belongs to the Open Educational Resources and is under Creative Commons (CC).
The Technology Enhanced Textbook, which is being developed by the FU Berlin , has broken away from its original book the furthest. Solved in the sense that it interprets the typical structuring, representation, steering, exercise and control functions of a textbook, which are essential features of (printed) textbooks, differently. Rather, it is designed to allow students to become authors and designers by personalizing the textbook. Following constructivist approaches, the pupils should be encouraged to actively construct knowledge and to deal with the environment. Various experiment functions are used for this.
The mBook project of the Institute for Digital Learning and the Professorship for Theory and Didactics of History in Eichstätt has developed a system and platform-independent multimedia history book for secondary levels 1 and 2 for the subject of history. It has been available in the German-speaking community in Belgium and Germany since 2013 used in a pilot test in North Rhine-Westphalia since August 2014. Part of the project is the scientific research into multimedia learning in the classroom. The mBook history has been available to all teachers and interested parties with a license model since August 2016 .
The Rhineland-Palatinate project inf-schule has been developing a system and platform-independent multimedia interactive textbook for secondary levels 1 and 2 for the subject of computer science since 2008. It is freely available, pursues the ideals of the OER for free educational media and is subject to a Creative Commons- License.
The Net school books are digital school books that were developed for the subjects of mathematics and computer science in North Rhine-Westphalia. These are new digital concepts that combine interactive tasks and multimedia elements with the teaching content.
Individual evidence
- ^ Anika Bonitz: Digital school books in Germany. In: Eva Matthes , Sylvia Schütze, Werner Wiater (Hrsg.): Digital educational media in class. Julius Klinkhardt Publishing House, Bad Heilbrunn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7815-1934-3 , pp. 128–129.
- ↑ digitale-schulbuecher.de
- ↑ digitale-schulbuecher.de accessed on June 29, 2014.
- ↑ startnext.de
- ^ Schulbuch-O-Mat accessed on October 1, 2014.
- ↑ The project. Free University of Berlin, 2011; Retrieved June 29, 2014.
- ^ H. Hacker: On the general didactics of the textbook. Didactic functions of the textbook medium. In: H. Hacker (Hrsg.): Study texts for elementary school didactics. The school book. Function and use in class. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1980, pp. 7-31.
- ↑ Didactic functions of the TET. Free University of Berlin; Retrieved June 29, 2014.
- ↑ ku.de accessed on September 12, 2016.
- ↑ medienberatung.schulministerium.nrw.de
- ↑ Waltraud Schreiber, Florian Sochatzy, Marcus Ventzke: Between Claim, Intention and Evidence. In: Michael shoes, Manuel Froitzheim (eds.): The electronic textbook - didactic requirements and ideas meet suggested solutions from computer science. LIT Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12589-7 , pp. 71-98.
- ↑ mBook story accessed on September 12, 2016.
- ↑ Klaus Becker, Oliver Schneider, Martin Zimnol, Daniel Jonietz a. a .: inf school. Retrieved November 20, 2018 .
- ↑ We congratulate the winners of the OER Awards RLP 2018. In: oer @ rlp. Accessed November 20, 2018 (German).
- ↑ About inf-school. ST OS, accessed November 20, 2018 .
- ↑ NRW20.Net math book. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ NRW20.Net computer science book. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Sek1 Computer Science. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ net-schulbuch.de. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .